{"id":65691,"date":"2024-10-25T12:47:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T16:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=65691"},"modified":"2024-10-25T13:17:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T17:17:45","slug":"pull-your-xbox-clock-capacitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=65691","title":{"rendered":"Pull Your Xbox Clock Capacitor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you have an OG Xbox sitting on a shelf somewhere, this is your reminder to pull the clock capacitor and clean up whatever corrosive goo it has already vomited out.<br \/>I was talking old video games with a student in one of my labs this week and it reminded me that this is one of the many projects I&#8217;ve been meaning to get to but haven&#8217;t had time for for the last several years.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/XboxClockCap-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Photo highlighting the leaked clock capacitor in an OG Xbox.\" class=\"wp-image-65694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/XboxClockCap-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/XboxClockCap-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/XboxClockCap-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/XboxClockCap-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/XboxClockCap.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft used some cheap 2.5V 1F early super caps which will inevitably fail and spray electrolyte on your motherboard, because they made some cost-cutting choices about the RTC, so now everyone with an old Xbox has to fix it.<br \/><br \/>iFixit has their usual helpful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/Guide\/Xbox+Disassembly\/1308\">guide for pulling it apart<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/consolemods.org\/wiki\/Xbox:Clock_Capacitor\">ConsoleMods wiki has the details on the clock cap situation<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t even bother replacing the one in mine, I don&#8217;t pull my old Xbox out enough for it to matter. <br \/>Remove dead cap, clean residue thoroughly, move on.  It&#8217;s a quick job. <br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have an OG Xbox sitting on a shelf somewhere, this is your reminder to pull the clock capacitor and clean up whatever corrosive goo it has already vomited out.I was talking old video games with a student in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=65691\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,37,6,1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-electronics","category-entertainment","category-general","category-objects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}